- The US navy revealed on Wednesday that one other ISIS chief was killed not too long ago.
- CENTCOM mentioned in an announcement that he was taken out in a Free Syrian Army raid in October.
- The Islamic State’s media affiliate confirmed Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi’s loss of life.
The chief of ISIS was killed not too long ago throughout a raid carried out by native Syrian forces within the southwest a part of the nation, the US navy revealed on Wednesday.
“The loss of life of Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in mid-October is one other blow to ISIS,” mentioned Col. Joe Buccino, a spokesperson for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), in an announcement. “This operation was carried out by The Free Syrian Army in Dar’a province in Syria. ISIS stays a menace to the area. CENTCOM and our companions stay centered on the enduring defeat of ISIS.”
Earlier on Wednesday, the Islamic State’s media affiliate introduced that the chief of the fear group had been killed combating not too long ago. The phobia group did not point out who killed al-Qurayshi — or the place, in accordance with a number of experiences. It did, nonetheless, announce a successor.
The earlier two Islamic State leaders earlier than al-Qurayshi had been taken off the battlefield in raids carried out by US particular operations forces. In February, a counterterrorism operation in northwest Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — who was appointed to guide the fear group after the October 2019 loss of life of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi throughout a US raid.
Previous to the CENTCOM announcement, Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby was requested about experiences of the ISIS chief’s loss of life. “We’re nonetheless working our approach by way of that,” he mentioned, per Reuters. “We welcome the announcement that one other chief of ISIS is not strolling the face of the Earth.”
Tensions have soared in Syria in latest weeks and the battle in opposition to ISIS faces potential setbacks following a lethal explosion that rocked Istanbul earlier this month, main Turkey, a NATO ally, guilty the incident on Kurdish teams. In response, Turkey launched a sequence of strikes in northern Syria and Iraq focusing on the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and threatened a potential floor invasion.
Due to this, the US mentioned it has decreased the variety of joint patrols its navy undertakes with the SDF, which Washington has supported and labored intently with within the battle in opposition to the Islamic State.
“We do stay deeply involved in regards to the escalating actions in northern Syria, Iraq and Turkey. And so, we actually urge restraint amidst the tensions on this area,” Pentagon Press Secretary Air Drive Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder informed reporters on Tuesday.
“And as you spotlight,” he continued, “the continued battle, particularly a floor invasion, would severely jeopardize the hard-fought good points that the world has achieved in opposition to ISIS, and would destabilize the area.”
SDF commander Gen. Mazloum Kobane Abdi informed Voice of America’s Kurdish Service this week that “there is no such thing as a doubt that Daesh will profit greater than anybody else from this Turkish offensive,” utilizing one other title for ISIS. He added that actions by Turkey have led the SDF to droop its operations in opposition to the fear group.
